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How to Stop Making Singletons in Swift: A Dependency Injection Guide | HackerNoon

This article outlines how to transition from singletons to dependency injection in a SwiftUI app with minimal effort. If you’re here, you likely already know that you should avoid singletons with various of reasons like: Hidden Dependencies: Classes rely on singletons without explicit indicators, making it harder to track app dependencies and leading to unintended coupling. Circular Dependencies: Singletons depending on each other can create cycles, leading to initialization deadlocks as instances wait for each

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Step-by-Step Guide to SQL Operations in Dremio and Apache Iceberg | HackerNoon

SQL (Structured Query Language) has long been the standard for interacting with data, providing a powerful and accessible language for data querying and manipulation. However, traditional data warehouses and databases often fall short when dealing with the scale and flexibility demanded by modern data workloads. This is where Apache Iceberg and Dremio come in. Apache Iceberg is an open table format designed for large-scale data lakes, enabling reliable data management with features like ACID transactions,

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Building Scalable Event-Driven Orchestration Platform in AWS | HackerNoon

These days, we’re surrounded by apps everywhere—on our phones, in our smart homes, and throughout businesses big and small. It’s almost unbelievable how much data they churn out every single day. We’re talking billions or trillions of events, from a simple tap on a phone screen to complex business transactions. It is essential for applications to handle these events in real-time to act on them as they occur and derive useful insights for the growth

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Building the Next Unicorn: Interview with SKL.vc, Startups of the Year 2024 Nominee | HackerNoon

Hey Hackers, SKL.vc has been nominated in HackerNoon’s annual Startups of The Year awards in Venture Capital, Investing, and Entrepreneurship under Business. Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. Meet SKL.vc ‘SKL.vc is where data-driven insights meet visionary startups’. ‘We’re building the B2C startups that define tomorrow’. This is how we usually describe ourselves, but what does it actually mean? Many people assume we’re a venture fund, given the “VC” in our

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The One-Shot Generalization Paradox: Why Generative AI Struggles With New Information | HackerNoon

Generative AI has been nothing short of a technological whirlwind. Models like GPT-4 have taken the world by storm with their surreal capacity to generate text that mimics human conversation, write essays, code, and even come up with creative solutions to some fairly complex tasks. We’re constantly inching closer to an AI-assisted future, one where our digital assistants will effortlessly understand and respond to our needs. It’s enough to make anyone a believer, right? Well,

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The Big Power of Small Pull Requests: How They Improve Reviews and Speed Up Development | HackerNoon

I have been writing code professionally for more than five years now. For the first four years, I never cared about the size of my pull requests (PRs). However, in the last year, I transitioned from submitting massive PRs with thousands of lines of changes to breaking them down into smaller, more manageable ones. The benefits of this shift have been immense, and in this blog, I’ll share those advantages. According to GitHub, a pull

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Wow, pnpm, You’re Really Fast: How to Use It on Heroku | HackerNoon

If you’re a Node.js developer, then you’re familiar with npm and Yarn. You might even have a strong opinion about using one over the other. For years, developers have been struggling with the bloat — in disk storage and build time — when working with Node.js package managers, especially npm. Heroku Build Speed Comparison Now that we’ve shown how to get a project up and running with pnpm (it’s pretty simple, right?), we wanted to compare the build times

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The Uncovered Secret Lives of MBAs From a Tech Person’s Perspective | HackerNoon

Preface*: I spent 3 days with MBA students from 2 of the top 10 universities in the world. Our interactions were within a school environment and comprised of academic and social activities. This includes almost 8 hours of lecture time, 5 hours in parties, and multiple formal and informal interactions over 3 days. Below is a summary of what I uncovered.* “I have my suit packed” I texted my friend half joking, half serious. I

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Polymarket Explained: How Blockchain Prediction Markets Are Shaping the Future of Forecasting (11/9/2024) | HackerNoon

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, November 9, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The chemical element Darmstadtium was discovered in 1994, Firefox 1.0 was released in 2004, NASA launches Apollo 4 test spacecraft in 1967, and we present you with these top quality stories. From How Bright Data AI Made Web Data Scraping/Collection Effortless: The Challenges Before Bright Data AI Solutions

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The TechBeat: Bitcoin Lightning Network: Is This the Fix for Digital Cash? (11/9/2024) | HackerNoon

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. By @ckb [ 2 Min read ] Explore how Bitcoin’s Lightning Network aims to tackle scaling issues, enabling fast, low-cost payments, and reviving Bitcoin’s original vision as digital cash. Read More. By @pressreleases [ 2 Min read ] Fastex Secures In-Principle Approval

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